Graphic Novels About the Best and Worst of Stepfamilies

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To avoid eternal damnation, Scarlet strikes a bargain with Satan (always a good move): if she kills one sinner every day, she can stay on Earth instead of in hell. Along the way, Scarlet meets a detective who might be able to provide answers about the life she cannot remember — including the reason she ended up in hell in the first place.

Riley and Kota are aspiring Olympic gymnasts and best friends. In fact, Kota is the only friend Riley has managed to make at her new training facility, both because of her shyness and trauma over losing her dad and because none of her fellow gymnasts (except Kota, of course) can be bothered to learn sign language. Together, they will overcome a variety of challenges.

You’ve all read fairytales where a wicked stepfamily abuses a poor innocent girl. Mia has too, so she’s very nervous when she is sent to live with her dead father’s relatives. But when it turns out her stepfamily is actually super nice and supportive, Mia doesn’t know what to do with herself!

Danni’s life is such a mess that developing a crush on the boy who might soon be her stepbrother is the least of her problems. Between her mother’s abusive boyfriend and rampant environmental destruction, there is more than enough on Danni’s plate and very little she can do about any of it.